Abstract

This paper introduces SceneAnalyzer, a specialized AI prompt designed to assist scholars and students in analyzing the narrative structure of Biblical Hebrew prose. Rooted in the linguistic foundations of clause sequencing and discourse analysis, SceneAnalyzer leverages large language model capabilities to identify and classify vayyiqtol driven narrative scenes, mini-scenes, and syntactic phenomena such as pluperfects, parenthetical clauses, and subordination. The tool also interprets scene transitions, tracks grammatical agency, and provides transliterated proper names to enhance linguistic clarity. Developed with Reformed theological sensitivity and a high view of Scripture, SceneAnalyzer functions as a research and teaching aid that bridges traditional Hebrew grammar with computational precision. The prompt was developed using ChatGPT but has not yet been fully tested with other platforms. SceneAnalyzer offers structured outputs in table form and interpretive commentary to support both syntactic analysis and theological reflection.

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